{"id":327752,"date":"2015-11-19T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/a-voice-from-islam-strengthening-the-bonds-of-friendship\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:02:03","slug":"a-voice-from-islam-strengthening-the-bonds-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/a-voice-from-islam-strengthening-the-bonds-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"A voice from Islam: strengthening the bonds of friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-131354 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/20151119-01.jpg\" alt=\"20151119-01\" width=\"279\" height=\"185\" \/>\u201cThe tragic news<\/strong> of the horrendous terrorist attacks in the French capital has filled us with profound sorrow. Our thoughts, solidarity and prayers go to the victims, the wounded and their families, to their loved ones and to the French people.\u201d With these words of condolence, <strong>Mustafa Cenap Aydin, director of the Tevere Centre for Dialogue in Rome<\/strong> expressed his dismay over recent terrorist attacks in France.  <strong>He went on<\/strong>: \u201cI unite myself to the message of the learned Muslim scholar, writer and educational activist M. Fethullah G\u00fclen: \u2018Every terrorist act from whomever it comes, is a heavy blow to the peace and tranquility of all humanity. These vile acts of terrorism are attacks not only against the French people, but also against the universal values of human brotherhood\u2019.\u201d  \u201cWe will never grow tired of condemning all those who feed violence, hatred and fear by reproachfully abusing a religion, an ideology, for cruel and inhuman goals.\u201d  G\u00fclen, who inspires millions with his message of love and compassion, invites everyone to join\u00a0\u00a0 him in prayer that God would lead \u201call of humanity to a world of peace and tranquility&#8221; and &#8220;to act in solidarity against every form of terrorism; to become involved in the realisation of universal peace\u201d.  \u201cWe shall respond to these &#8216;inhuman<strong>&#8216;<\/strong> acts,\u201d Mustafa Cenap Aydin concluded, \u201cby reinforcing even more the spirit of unity and brotherhood. These attacks cannot but convince us even more of the importance of dialogue, conciliation and brotherhood; and to increase our commitment to spreading it. We are obviously convinced that peace will prevail. Let us call upon and appeal to one and all, to unite with us in this effort.\u201d  <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cittanuova.it\/index.php?idsito=1\"><em>Citt\u00e0 Nuova <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">in Italian<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Condolences from the director of the Tevere Centre for Dialogue in Rome, Italy, Mustafa Cenap Aydin in the face of the Paris attacks: responding to the \u201cinhuman\u201d attacks by reinforcing a spirit of unity and brotherhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893,894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2","category-senza-categoria-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}